The Spalding guide brings to mind an interesting sidebar. Chick Evans spent several winters in Atlanta playing EL while staying with Adair. For reasons I have never understood, Bob Jones disliked Evans. Jones would have been a kid at the time of the Evans visits and no doubt first met him then. Even as a teenager Jones would have given Evans a test. He had won the GA amateur at 14, held the course record at EL, played in an Open at Merion a couple of years later, etc.
They played together on a couple of Walker Cup teams in the early 1920's. Accounts note (subtly) that there was friction between the two, something unusual for Jones who got along with most everyone. I've wondered if their relationship didn't first go off the rails back at EL during Evans' visits to Atlanta.
If anyone has an insight on the Evans/Jones thing, I would love to hear it.
Bob